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Johnson, William Samuel

lawyer, jurist, college president, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 7, 1727, in Stratford, Conn. In 1765 he was a delegate to the congress at New York. In 1772 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Connecticut; and in 1780 was a member of the council of Connecticut. He was again a delegate to the New York congress in 1785. He was a senator in congress from 1789 to 1791, and from 1792 to 1800 president of Columbia college in New York. He died Nov. 14, 1819, in Stratford, Conn.